Ya Got Trouble-Robert Preston

[ti:Ya Got Trouble] [ar:Robert Preston] [al:Meredith Willson's The Music Man (Original Broadway Cast)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ya Got Trouble - Robert Preston [00:01.40]Ya got trouble understand [00:01.95] [00:02.80]Friend either you're closing your eyes [00:04.74]To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge [00:06.78]Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated [00:09.68]By the presence of a pool table in your community [00:11.83] [00:12.73]Well ya got trouble my friend right here [00:15.28]I say trouble right here in River City [00:17.04]Why sure I'm a billiard player [00:18.20]Certainly mighty proud I say [00:19.30]I'm always mighty proud to say it [00:21.02]I consider that the hours I spend [00:22.65]With a cue in my hand are golden [00:24.06] [00:25.00]Help you cultivate horse sense [00:26.60]And a cool head and a keen eye [00:28.39] [00:28.90]Jever' take and try to find [00:29.91]An iron-clad leave for yourself [00:31.20]From a three-rail billiard shot [00:32.42] [00:33.09]But just as I say [00:34.14]It takes judgment brains and maturity to score [00:36.14]In a balkline game [00:37.15]I say that any boob can take [00:39.03]And shove a ball in a pocket [00:40.58] [00:41.09]And I call that sloth [00:42.41]The first big step on the road [00:43.69]To the depths of deg-ra-day [00:44.94]I say first medicinal wine from a teaspoon [00:48.12]Then beer from a bottle [00:49.06] [00:49.64]An' the next thing ya know [00:50.82]Your son is playin' for money [00:52.06]In a pinch-back suit [00:52.98] [00:53.50]And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper [00:55.73]Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' [00:57.95]Not a wholesome trottin' race no [00:59.46]But a race where they set down right on the horse [01:01.38] [01:01.89]Like to see some stuck-up jockey boy [01:03.48]Settin' on Dan Patch [01:04.99]Make your blood boil [01:05.91]Well I should say [01:06.66] [01:07.21]Now friends lemme tell you what I mean [01:09.12]Ya got one two three four [01:11.32]Five six pockets in a table [01:13.46]Pockets that mark the diff'rence [01:14.98]Between a gentlemen and a bum [01:16.51]With a capital "B " [01:17.52]And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool [01:19.37] [01:20.04]And all week long your River City [01:21.57]Youth'll be fritterin' away [01:22.72]I say your young men'll be fritterin' [01:24.35] [01:24.96]Fritterin' away their noontime [01:26.45]Suppertime choretime too [01:27.74] [01:28.28]Get the ball in the pocket [01:29.33]Never mind gettin' dandelions pulled [01:30.79]Or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded [01:32.68] [01:33.26]Never mind pumpin' any water [01:34.62]'Til your parents are caught with the cistern empty [01:36.62]On a Saturday night and that's trouble [01:38.16]Yes you got lots and lots of trouble [01:39.97]I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers [01:41.83]Shirt-tail young ones peekin' in the pool [01:43.38]Hall window after school ya got trouble folks [01:45.67]Right here in River City [01:46.60] [01:47.33]Trouble with a capital "T" [01:48.60]And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool [01:50.71]Now I know all you folks are the right kind of parents [01:52.95] [01:53.48]I'm gonna be perfectly frank [01:54.62] [01:55.40]Would ya like to know what kinda conversation goes [01:57.59]On while they're loafin' around that Hall [01:59.35]They be tryin' out Bevo tryin' out cubebs [02:01.52]Tryin' out Tailor Mades like cigarette fiends [02:03.63] [02:04.25]And braggin' all about [02:05.56]How they're gonna cover up a tell-tale breath with Sen-Sen [02:07.90]One fine night they leave the pool hall [02:10.54]Headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry [02:11.96]Libertine men and Scarlet women [02:13.75]And Rag-time shameless music [02:15.84]That'll grab your son your daughter [02:17.70]With the arms of a jungle animal instinct [02:19.73]Mass-staria [02:20.61] [02:21.24]Friends the idle brain is the devil's playground [02:23.69]Trouble oh we got trouble [02:25.13]Right here in River City [02:26.21] [02:26.97]With a capital "T" [02:27.93]That rhymes with "P" [02:28.67]And that stands for Pool [02:29.92]That stands for pool [02:30.70]We've surely got trouble [02:31.95] [02:32.61]Right here in River City [02:33.78]Right here [02:34.46]Gotta figure out a way [02:35.47]To keep the young ones moral after school [02:37.06] [02:40.61]Mothers of River City [02:41.48] [02:42.40]Heed the warning before it's too late [02:44.22]Watch for the tell-tale signs of corruption [02:45.92] [02:46.82]The moment your son leaves the house [02:48.32]Does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee [02:50.54] [02:51.60]Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger [02:53.42] [02:53.97]A dime novel hidden in the corn crib [02:55.50] [02:56.23]Is he starting to memorize jokes from Capt [02:58.36]Billy's Whiz Bang [02:58.95] [02:59.95]Are certain words creeping into his conversation [03:02.15] [03:03.02]Words like 'swell' " [03:05.04] [03:06.48]And 'so's your old man' " [03:07.54] [03:09.31]Well if so my friends [03:10.32] [03:11.12]Ya got trouble [03:11.78] [03:12.62]Right here in River City [03:13.64] [03:14.39]With a capital "T" [03:15.45]And that rhymes with "P" [03:16.36]And that stands for Pool [03:17.12] [03:18.08]We've surely got trouble [03:18.83] [03:19.82]Right here in River City [03:20.67] [03:21.57]Remember the Maine Plymouth Rock and the Golden Rule [03:24.36] [03:26.03]Oh we've got trouble [03:27.39]We're in terrible terrible trouble [03:28.81]That game with the fifteen numbered balls is a devil's tool [03:31.40] [03:32.47]Oh yes we got trouble trouble trouble [03:33.88] [03:36.34]With a "T" [03:36.83] [03:37.83]Gotta rhyme it with "P" [03:38.68] [03:39.45]And that stands for Pool